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Seminar 19. Typology in Modern trends of linguistics
►Classroom activities
Exercise №1. Work in groups. Discuss the following question.

What is the role of Typology in Modern trends of linguistics?

Exercise №2. Match the Dates with the right investigations.

1. XVIII century	a. The anthropocentric paradigm appeared
2. the 30s of the XXth century	b. Investigations in comparative typology was developed

Exercise №3a. As we know, the concept of linguaculturology can be understood as “cultural-mental-lexical” expression. Clearly, linguacultualogy means cultural behavior of any nation and some phrases appear from the cultural spirit of a nation (for example,the word “квас” in Russian is used as a component in the phraseological unit “перебиватьсясхлебанакваснаводу” with the meaning “live from hand to mouth”, be extremely poor”. Kvass (квас) is a national drink made from rye bread and malt. Phraseological units containing such national components also exist in the English language. For example, the name of the English river Avon is a component of the phraseological expression “Sweet Swan of Avon”. In Uzbek, mostly “green tea” is considered as anational component in such examples as “бир пиёла чой устида” with the meaning of pleasant conversation or discussion of a serious issue).

Based on the above-mentioned samples find out national coloring words, which can be asymbol of theculture of compared languages.

English	Russian	Uzbek

b. Go round the class and compare your list with the group. Add by one interesting phrase from other students. Discuss the reasons why do you think so with the group.